Quotes About Spirituality

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Miracles happen. But prayer is needed! Prayer that is courageous, struggling and persevering, not prayer that is a mere formality.

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward

Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Prayer is the key to unlocking God's prevailing power in your life.

If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else.

If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.

Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.

True prayer is a lonely business.